Hosiery packaging



Patented Nov. 12, 1935 PATENT OFFICE H SIERY PACKAGING William H. Gosch, Reading, Pa., assigner to The Nolde and Horst Company, Reading, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application November 26, 1934, Serial No. 754,821

1 Claim.

My invention relates particularly to the packaging of hosiery or like fabric goods and it consists in providing for the maintaining of the same in neatly folded and symmetrically placed dis- Y play position notwithstanding the disturbing handling to which the packaging is normally subjected in shipment and servicing, as fully set forth in connection with the accompanying drawing and specifically dened in the subjoined claim.

Fig. 1 indicates the ordinary method of packaging stockings and the very objectionable displacement of the exposed terminal portions which my invention provides for positively avoiding without possible effect upon the delicate fabric.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating my improved method of fixedly securing the folded stockings upon a supporting sheet; Fig. 3 being an enlarged cross-sectional View on the line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 indicates a modified hook-on means, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view thereof on the line 5-5.

One of the minor but practically important problems involved in the manufacture and sale of the delicately fabricated silk stockings so extensively used by women, relates to the satisfactory packaging and handling of such goods for transportation and offering to customers; especially to the insuring of them against damage to such delicately textured portions as are apt to be prominently exposed in wearing them as well as in presentation for sale, and of easy maintenance of their orderly and attractive appearance during the handlings incident to proper showing of them to prospective purchasers.

The primary object of my invention is to overcome the practically serious difculty which is indicated in Fig. 1. In this showing of known packaging, a pair of ladies stockings is illustrated as contained in a suitable box or enclosure I0; with the stockings folded transversely at different points in their length, upon a supporting sheet II of relatively stiff paper or the like, and with the upper face portion I3 of the body exposed and the top edges ofthe welt I4 adapted to normally lie adjacent the top edge I2 of the sheet and the fabric folds thereon. The showing furtherindicates the heretofore unsolved problem which my invention satisfactorily solves; namely that of preventing the sagging of the exposed upper portion of the stocking into unsightly folds as indicated at I5, which is commonly caused by handling of the Vpackage for transportation and selling. This solution involves the maintaining of said welt 'edges I4 in their de- (Cl. 20G-80) sired normal position adjacent the top edge I2 of the fold-covered sheet, with orderly tautness of the exposed stocking and without subjecting the delicate body portion of the stocking to any pressure tending to impair its normal handsome 5 appearance, while at the same time providing for easy release and renewal of the neatly tauted upper portion of the stocking.

The welt edges I4 of the two stockings constituting a pair, are commonly held together so that the unsightly folds I5 cannot occur in each stocking but only in a joined pair; such joining being ordinarily effected in connection with the providing of a marker or ticket I6 secured to the substantial welt fabric of the stockings, as indicated in Fig. 1. In the Figs. 2 and 3 showing of my improved packaging such a marker or ticket I 6 is indicated as similarly securing the Welt edges of two stockings, by engaging the welt fabric in an opening of the ticket as set forth in Kimball Patent No. 1,854,149; while in Figs. 4 and 5 the simple ticket or marker I 6 may be held by the separate welt-clamping means indicated.

In my improved packaging I have found it essential to the satisfactory avoidance of the unsightly and possibly harmful folds I5 in the leg fabric, to provide free suspension of the independently-held-together tops of paired stockings, upon the turned-over leg fabric on the top I2 of the supporting sheet Il; so as to normally 30 maintain said tops in tauting position adjacent the top of the sheet, without applying any disguring pressure upon the turned-over leg fabric and with freedom of removal from such position as required for full showing of the stockings. As indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 this is accomplished by simply forming the exposed ticket I6 with a hook-on extension 2U, adapted to be folded-over upon the turned-over fabric on the sheet I I so as to loosely bear against the rear portion of the fabric and thus harmlesslyhold the united tops of the stockings in normal position until purposely unhooked for displaying the stockings. This essential hook-on characteristic of my invention may be provided with equal simplicity as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5, by forming the separate welt-top clamping device 2l with a hook-on extension 20a adapted to loosely overhang the turned-over fabric on the sheet II substantially as said extension 20 does, and thus maintain the 50 united tops in normal position until purposely lifted 01T. The simplicity of the means required to effect my improved packaging is actually an essential to satisfactory solution of the problem dealt with, the importance of which is due to the multitude of packagings employed ,and such solution necessarily involving exclusion of complication and expense as Well as avoidance of possible 1 With their top edges terminating adjacent a. fold- `eovered edge of said sheet; of a holding device for said terminal stocking edges comprising an inscription uniting member attached to the latter and a hook-on member comprising a flange-extension turned-over upon` the fold-covered sheet to retain said terminal edges in position. Y

WILLIAM. H.Y GQSCH. 

